BREAKING: White House directs former counsel McGahn to not comply with congressional subpoena.
The White House has directed former counsel Donald McGahn not to comply with a congressional subpoena for documents related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, current White House counsel Pat Cipollone said in a letter Tuesday.House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., for testimony
and documents as part the panel's investigation into possible obstruction of justice by the president and others. But in a letter to Nadler Tuesday, Cipollone wrote that the subpoena seeks"certain White House records provided" to McGahn when he was White House counsel. Those documents"remain legally protected from disclosure under longstanding constitutional principles, because they implicate significant Executive Branch confidentiality interests and executive privilege," Cipollone said, adding that McGahn"does not have the legal right to disclose these documents.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has directed McGahn not to produce the subpoenaed White House records, Cipollone continued, adding that the committee should direct any request for those records to the White House.
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